August 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Still wanting to upgrade to 12.1 ..............
by Duaine Hechler 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

with the following conditions fixed. I would like to here from persons that have had these problems fixed. - Can't get my MB sound card to work (Intel ICH7) consistent. - alsasound will not stay "yes" in the system service levels. - rcalsasound or alsactl reports (alsa) "inactive" - and - can't get it active. - Can't get my display to stay at 1024x768 - Can't get rid of the "Nepomuk Indexing Disabled) popups TIA, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Installing multiple operating systems on same HDD
by Basil Chupin 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

I don't want to use VirtualBox or VMWare. I have a 1TB HDD which is crammed full of empty and unused space. I want to put this space to some use by playing around with more than one systems and distros. I have created (for now) following partitions on this HDD (sda): sda1 Windows XP ntfs [INSTALLED EARLIER TODAY] sda2 Extended partition sda5 openSUSE 12.2 [INSTALLED EARLIER TODAY] sda6 swap sda7 (For oS 12.1) sda8 (For os 12.1 - just for the heck of it) Now, XP of course has its boot sitting in MBR and GRUB in openSUSE 12.2 is using Extended Partition to boot. Before I go and install oS 12.1 in sda7 I would like to know where do I tell GRUB to boot from - extended partition, just like oS 12.2, or do I use the 12.1 "/" entry for Grub's configuration? If I use the Extended Partition will it overwrite whatever is there for the 12.2 installation? I am asking because I don't want to spend hours recovering my 12.2 system if I mess the setup in Grub for 12.1. I've looked around but cannot find an unambiguous description of what to use for the 12.1 Grub except that one should not use the MBR (and not only because XP is installed). All help would be greatly appreciated, thank you. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.8.4 & kernel 3.5.1-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] hardware frequency modules
by George Olson 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

I have an AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor running on an ASUS M4A78T-E motherboard. My processor fan was pretty loud, so I purchased a separate processor fan and heat sink, and plugged those in over my processor instead of the stock version. Well, it didn't work, and the processor got up to 130 deg F, and the computer shut down (that is my normal laptop temperature, but my desktop normally runs at about 110 deg). Also, the non-stock processor fan (Deep Cool is the brand name) only had a 3 pin plug for the fan, while the stock version had a 4 pin plug. So, I went back to the stock version, plugged it in, and it seems to run fine. However, now there is a problem. My cpu temperature is fine, still running between 105 and 110 deg F. My fan is still loud, but it runs ok. The problem is, now I can no longer tell what frequency my processor is running at. Before I ever swapped out the fans, my system load viewer would say what speed each of the 4 processors were running at. Now, it says they are always running at 2111.1 MHz. Also, when I boot up my desktop (box #1 below) as the services are being listed on the screen, I get this one line: Loading CPUFreq modules - hardware support not available skipped So here is where I need help. Are each of the 4 processors on my CPU really running at 3211MHz all the time, or is this just a false reading because the CPUFreq modules are not loaded? Also, is it possible that I damaged something on the motherboard or the processor when the temperature ran up to 130 deg for a couple of minutes, so that now the processor always runs at that speed? Is is possible that purchasing a new stock fan and plugging it in will solve the problem? Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated. -- G.O. Box #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.4 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | ATI Radeon HD 3300 | 16GB Box #2: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.4 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB Laptop: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.4 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | Intel HD Graphics 3000 | 8GB learning openSUSE and loving it -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-295.71_k2.6.37.1_1.2-17.1.i586.rpm bad checksum Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:00:24 -0400
by Russ Fineman 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

For openSuSE 11.4 i586 from ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.4/ zypper reports: Digest verification failed for nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-295.71_k2.6.37.1_1.2-17.1.i586.rpm. Expected 7505d4304563aa905f8950de1a4c434a3ca2d7f9, found 0f272b49f1fccdbc1938aba02831dac9fb9f03d9. rpm --checksig nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-295.71_k2.6.37.1_1.2-17.1.i586.rpm reports: nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-295.71_k2.6.37.1_1.2-17.1.i586.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 MD5 GPG NOT OK Are there other mirrors I can try? Bill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org Have you tried downloading from Nvidia: (http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us) and then using the script (lnvwh) available at: http://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/lnvhw-load-nvidia-driver-hard-… I've always used this since it became available. Never fails. On the Nvidia page just select correct nvidia model and in your case 32-bit Linux. I'm using the 64-bit version (295-71) now, my 12.1 is using the 295-59 version. Hope this helps -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Mouse over flash area causes FF to crash
by Robert Schweikert 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Hi, When I move the mouse over an area on a web page that's a flash animation FF crashes. I have HW acceleration in the flash-settings disabled. openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 nouveau -- Gallium 0.4 on NV84 -- 2.1 Mesa 7.11 FF: 14.0.1 flash-player-11.2.202.236-24.1.x86_64 Timing of this happening is a bit unfortunate as I had to re-install my system disk and thus this is a brand new install and I cannot say whether or not there was a recent FF, flash, or nouveau update. I know that prior to my systemdisk issue I did not observe this problem. - Anyone else seeing this issue? - Any settings I can apply to nouveau, FF, or flash? I don't really want to switch to chrome, but at this point FF crashes all the time as it is almost impossible to navigate any web page without moving the mouse over some stupid embedded flash region. Thanks, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei(a)suse.com rschweik(a)ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] no man page for gfxboot.cfg
by Felix Miata 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

And, the string "color" is not found in the gfxboot man page. Using nothing but http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Gfxboot and trial and error, I've created a custom 12.1 Grub Legacy boot theme for a low vision user, except for one obstacle: no matter what I change involving transparency or color, the bottom row and the F1 text are stuck on #FFFFFF, which is too light for the lightcolored background image. Anyone know how to change this color to anything else, like black? http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/gfxboot.cfg32 my the current incarnation of gfxboot.cfg. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-295.71_k2.6.37.1_1.2-17.1.i586.rpm bad checksum Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:00:24 -0400
by Bill Merriam 11 Aug '12

11 Aug '12

For openSuSE 11.4 i586 from ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.4/ zypper reports: Digest verification failed for nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-295.71_k2.6.37.1_1.2-17.1.i586.rpm. Expected 7505d4304563aa905f8950de1a4c434a3ca2d7f9, found 0f272b49f1fccdbc1938aba02831dac9fb9f03d9. rpm --checksig nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-295.71_k2.6.37.1_1.2-17.1.i586.rpm reports: nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-295.71_k2.6.37.1_1.2-17.1.i586.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 MD5 GPG NOT OK Are there other mirrors I can try? Bill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Partition Recovery? Is it even missing to begin with or just shifted?
by David C. Rankin 11 Aug '12

11 Aug '12

All, My son came in and said "There's a problem with my computer can you come look?", so I asked him to tell me what the problem was, to which he replied "No, come look!" Suffice it to say it was a grub error complaining about no partition being found -- huh? How did that happened? Evidently, Counter-strike (Steam) froze hard in windows requiring a power-off shutdown. The box is dual-boot, so I booted Linux all is well there. I have run fdsisk, sfdisk, gpart and testdisk to try and get a picture to what is going on and how to fix it. From memory, the 250G drive should have had: sda sda1 Primary/NTFS sda2 Extended sda5 swap sda6 / ext3 sda7 /home ext4 However, it looks like something got inserted at the beginning of the disk (or something like that) that has thrown the partition number/order information off. I've never seen anything like it. My questions are: (1) does anybody recognize what happened?; and (2) what can I do to attempt to recover? (which tool would be best?) Here is what the diagnostics show. ----------- fdisk -l ----------- Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders, total 490234752 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00075d46 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 29 29 0 0 Empty /dev/sda2 63 315291689 157645813+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 315291690 490223474 87465892+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 315291753 319195484 1951866 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 319195548 368017019 24410736 83 Linux /dev/sda7 368017083 490223474 61103196 83 Linux ----------- sfdisk -l ----------- Disk /dev/sda: 30515 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 0+ 0- 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda2 0+ 19625 19626- 157645813+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 19626 30514 10889 87465892+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) sfdisk: start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,0,1) /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda5 19626+ 19868 243- 1951866 82 Linux swap / Solaris sfdisk: start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1) /dev/sda6 19869+ 22907 3039- 24410736 83 Linux sfdisk: start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1) /dev/sda7 22908+ 30514 7607- 61103196 83 Linux sfdisk: start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1) ----------- sfdisk -d ----------- # partition table of /dev/sda unit: sectors /dev/sda1 : start= 29, size= 0, Id= 0, bootable /dev/sda2 : start= 63, size=315291627, Id= 7 /dev/sda3 : start=315291690, size=174931785, Id= f /dev/sda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/sda5 : start=315291753, size= 3903732, Id=82 /dev/sda6 : start=319195548, size= 48821472, Id=83 /dev/sda7 : start=368017083, size=122206392, Id=83 ----------- testdisk /list /dev/sda ----------- TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011 Christophe GRENIER <grenier(a)cgsecurity.org> http://www.cgsecurity.org Please wait... Disk /dev/sda - 251 GB / 233 GiB - CHS 30515 255 63, sector size=512 Disk /dev/sda - 251 GB / 233 GiB - CHS 30515 255 63 Partition Start End Size in sectors 2 P HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 19625 254 63 315291627 3 E extended LBA 19626 0 1 30514 254 63 174931785 No partition is bootable 5 L Linux Swap 19626 1 1 19868 254 63 3903732 X extended 19869 0 1 22907 254 63 48821535 6 L Linux 19869 1 1 22907 254 63 48821472 [root] X extended 22908 0 1 30514 254 63 122206455 7 L Linux 22908 1 1 30514 254 63 122206392 [home] The original grub/menu.lst information for chainloading windows was: rootnoverify (hd0,5) chainloader (hd0,0)+1 The sfdisk -l information seems to point to the problem: start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1). How to repair that? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] libreOffice-3.5.4 taking more time to open
by Ricardo Chung 11 Aug '12

11 Aug '12

I have recently noticed when I start LibreOffice 3.5.4.7-4.8.1 on openSUSE 12.1 KDE KR49 | x86_64 is taking around 1 min 30 seconds to open up. This is unusual behavior on LibreOffice on older versions or same version a few days before. I was thinking maybe it's related to JRE 1.6.0_24. Could someone give me some feedback? Regards, -- Ricardo Chung | Panama Ambassador openSUSE Projects -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] user ccount has expired
by Kym 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Hello I've got a PC running OpenSUSE 12.1 (x64). After a vacations period (45 days), the user turn on the PC again, but when try to login; the system states: "Your account has expired" The user account was created without explicitly setting a account expiration date. In the network there are many PCs running Linux OpenSUSE (11.4 and 12.1). This problem has occurred in two of them, but I cannot detect a regularity as the cause of the problem. Any suggestion will be appreciated Kym -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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